My second, and final collaboration with Alas Solidarias was to be a trip to Baghdad to bring a young boy, Anas, back to Spain for an emergency heart operation.In the end, we found ourselves meeting Anas and his mother in Queen Alia airport in Amman, Jordan.

This project, and the NGO itself, was in many ways a disaster. While I should be distancing myself, I do think that the experience has been invaluable and has been put to good, effective use in projects with other organisations that followed.